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"Vertical drilling of 19.2 meters completed...": NHIDCL MD on Uttarkashi t
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) Managing Director Mahmood Ahmad on Sunday informed that a total of 19.2 meters of vertical drilling has been completed at Uttarkashi's tunnel where 41 workers remained trapped.
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"86 meters of vertical drilling required to reach tunnel's crust": NDMA on
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
National Disaster Management Authority Member, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Sunday said that 86 meters of vertical drilling is required to reach the crust of the Uttarkashi's tunnel where 41 workers remained trapped adding that 17 meters of the drilling has already taken place.
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Uttarkashi rescue operation: Process of removing auger machine is underway
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
As rescue personnel raced against time to reach the workers trapped inside an under-construction tunnel, the process of removing the Auger machine from the debris is underway, and the process is being done by cutting through a plasma cutter machine.
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Indian Army's engineer regiment called in for manual drilling at Uttarkash
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The Indian Army has been called in at Uttarkashi's Silkyara tunnel for manual drilling at the site where 41 workers have remained trapped for the past 15 days.
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Vertical drilling of Uttarkashi tunnel begins to rescue 41 trapped workers
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The vertical drilling to rescue the trapped workers in the Silkyara tunnel, which was halted earlier today, has been resumed and the rescuers have managed to make progress over a distance of 17 metres from the hill above the tunnel.
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Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: Rescuers make 8-metre progress through vertical
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
With vertical drilling underway to further aid the rescue of the trapped workers in Silkyara tunnel, the rescuers managed to make progress over a distance of 8 metres down the ground in the last one and a half hours.
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Vertical drilling underway to rescue workers trapped in Uttarkashi tunnel
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Vertical drilling, one of the several chalked-out options to bring out 41 workers who have been trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi since November 12, finally started on Sunday afternoon.
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Arnold Dix calls tunnel collapse in Uttarkashi 'unusual occurrence', sugge
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
International tunnelling expert Arnold Dix said that there was no clue of a collapse in the area where the incident happened, in which 41 workers have been trapped for two weeks, while urging to investigate the matter.
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Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: IAF flies in 'critical DRDO equipment' to Uttar
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The Indian Air Force on Sunday flew in 'critical DRDO equipment' in an effort to accelerate the rescue of 41 workers, who are trapped inside the collapsed portion of the under-construction Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi for over two weeks now, the IAF informed through an official release.<
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"Plasma cutter to aid removal of Auger machine, blades from debris": Micro
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
A day after the ongoing efforts to rescue 41 trapped workers from the collapsed portion of the under-construction Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi hit fresh hurdles, micro-tunnelling expert Chris Cooper on Sunday said the rescuers were removing smaller as well as bigger pieces of debris from
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Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: CM Dhami meets family of trapped workers
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami visited on Sunday the family of Pushkar Singh Airi, a worker from Tanakpur who has been trapped in the Silkyara tunnel for the last 15 days.
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Magna rod cutter machine deployed to speed up Uttarakhand tunnel rescue op
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The plasma cutter machine was brought to the Silkyara tunnel early in the morning.The process of removing the auger machine was underway even before the new machine arrived at the site.
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